Striking-plate and carry-iron.



G. T. WESTLAKE. STRIKING PLATE AND CAREY IRONl` lAPILICIATION FILED `JULY 3, 1911.

Patented Nov. 5, w12.

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OFFICE CHARLES zr. wnsrLAizE, oF sfr.. LOUIS, mssoUnLnssIGNonronLonY-canny mon ooMPANY, oF sr. Louis, 1\fr1ssom 1,A aoonroRAUoN'o-r DELAWARE;

To-all 'whom-'it concern: T4"

Beit known that LCHARLES T fwnsrmnn'- a citizen of the United States, residing atj St.. Louis, Missouri,'have invented a certain' new and useful Improvement in Striking Plates and Carry-Irons', of which the following is a full, clear, and 'exact description,

such as .will enable othersvskillediintheart i to which it appertains to makeA anduse the same, reference being had to theaccompany- 1 ing drawings, forming of y tliispeciii --Figure 1 is a plan view'of removable strikm plate. Fig. is a'front view of the same. Ig. 3 is a sectional view on 11ne 3 3, Fig. 2'.

This invention relates toa new land .useful improvement in striking plates for car con-v` my improvement,the striking plate is `in the form of a frustumof apyramid, the top andV side walls thereof diver ingat anarfgle andy secured to a base plate, whereby the strains are distributed over a large area;r of the base plate, said basplate in turnbearing against -theend ofthey underframe, so r as 4to bringl use to resist the buiing strains of thefear.

the for/m of a frustum of a pyraml more of the parts of theunderfraine into In' the dra-wingszv4 1 indicates the base of l l .the vstriking' .plate and 2 is the front wall thereof, This front wall 2 is .imperfora'te, comparatively thick'and heavy,'and its front face or surface occupies a position slightly in advance of the depending lugs which support the drawbar carry iron.

3 is the inclined top wall and 4 the diverging side walls. -The-'strin'g pate' is -in 5is` an interior strengthening web'\ and 6 preferably reversible, the upper and lower above-and below the"horizontalp1ane of the aces thereof being -at difl'erentndistances pivot and s'ecurn pin fromwhich former thecarry iron swlngs and by which llatter said carry iron is secured in position. By

- striking plate whereby thecoresmay be supreversin-g fthecarry iron, shank of the* coupler or, draw bar may beadjusted vertiv cally.. Thinterior strengthening web 5 is f connected to the-top b'ottomfand 4top walls with thebase so as to. provide openings throughout the-housing" into the box-like ported'in position.

6- forming the .mainbody portion of the be readily broken off while in service."

#What-I claim is:

The hereinde'scribed combined striking plateand carry iron support formed in a -baseplate and comprising 'a horizontally disposed bottom wall, inclined side and top walls, affront wall integral with said bottom, side and top walls, a' -Vertically disposed strengthening web between the front wall and the base, the rear'end of which strengthening web is -flanged laterally in 'finement with v.the bas'e plate, and a pair f lugs'integral with and ldepending from the under'- tions of which lugs occupy 'a vertical @plane to the rearv of the plane occupiedl by the front face .of the front wall of the forward extension, and the lower ends of which lugs are-bifurcated and adapted to receive a draw Ibarca'rry iron.

signature in the pfesence ofV tw o witnesses, this 13th day of'J une, 1911. v

i CHARLES T. lI/VESTLAKE. Witnesses:.

HAL C. BELLVILLE.

Copies of this patent :hay be obtained for ve cents` each, by addressing the Commissioner errements,

i' washington, D. c.

' and therefore said depending, lugs will not..

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiix` myy and .at its rear edgegis an'ged at 5a` in line -'striki'ngplate :are imperforate and for this,

single piece and comprising a baseplate, a A projection extending forwardly vfrer-"said-n side of the forward extension, the front pon y 60 Itwillbe noted that the .walls 2J,v 3, 4, and i 

